played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seemed to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. to the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with a new one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom of one of the bokhari as arthur decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere in the corridors and cabins us most of them were wearing the life of us

divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and all say she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august has not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son who died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're old but will have to look after and she's only want to half years old but you know if you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster reports about the ship's. engines failing about blocked emergency exits

and elektra city failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed on bottom r.t. . and on our website r.t. dot com you can read the account of one man who alone saved almost eighty people from the board daria many of the captain of the ship that stopped and helped the stricken pleasure cruiser he modestly points to his crew and passengers as the real heroes he was also quoted saying that no one was untouched and that people rushed to help without hesitation willingly giving their clothes to the wounded there's more on our website that's our thought come. you with r.t.

now washington's proposed missile shield over europe remains the stumbling block in russian american relations that's according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who is now in the united states moscow wants legal guarantees that the shield will not target russia and argues that nato is on a willingness to provide them with little to ease the tension artie's guy nature can as the story. u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian news for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has been getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did convene it continued recruiting new members of the bottom line is words are good but words

in a legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation on the ground that being created on the basis of american national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us is a reasonable way to respond to what is there sieved as being the opposite of the system so we want to stick to the original agreed that there would be no parts of the system which would create three six for the strategic stability and for the but then the strategic stability area namely strategic arsenals of the participants of the system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be a joint project because russia is not part of nato to that moscow says if that's

the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words. right there for a minute and laugh it off will be meeting with president obama and secretary of state clinton later today i will be keeping you up to date with developments. the british prime minister david cameron is calling for an investigation into allegations that victims of nine eleven were targeted by reporters it's the latest twist to the phone hacking crisis that's engulfed reported murdoch's media empire as a scandal goes global it's claimed the journalists try to bribe new york police officers for access to victims of voicemail u.s. senators are also now calling for their own investigation into news corp meanwhile the british parliament has showed all the vote calling on the media mogul to drop his buyout plans for the country's largest cable t.v. broadcaster b. sky b. and to discuss this we are joined by tony gosling a u.k. based investigative journalist. good to see you so journalists hacking into the

voicemail of terror victims and it does indeed it sounds pretty outrageous let's try to look at the broader picture if journalists can just bribe their way to access private information does that make all of us are vulnerable. well i don't think it was one of the things that david cameron's been trying to do is to make out that this is all journalists that are doing this and this really simply is not true this is one of the tactics he's using because he's very very close to the murdoch empire in trying to spread the blame and actually it's really something which is very much focused around the tabloids of news international but also other newspapers in the murdoch empire and that the whole focus of this story seems to be shifting slightly away from the. individual private investigators that were doing this hacking commissioned by the murdoch empire to the list of something like four thousand names which the police have had since about two thousand and four two thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these

individuals and. boy by the murdoch empire and yet they've not acted on it and i think this is really where this story is going is and now people are starting to ask questions if the police have got this private facie evidence of criminality why haven't they acted further they've effectively they've decided not to investigate themselves and this is now becoming the focus i think here in britain of the story where we see lots of scotland yard detectives basically coming to an agreement and of course these people have many of them have been paid by the murdoch empire to not investigate themselves so the regulation is completely gone now if we go back to ninety ninety seven this is december ninety seven the chief commissioner of metropolitan police a paul condon actually told the home affairs select committee that they had between one hundred and two hundred fifty corrupt detectives in scotland yard but that there was nothing he could do about it because they had more money and better

barristers than he did he knew they were corrupt but he couldn't sack them so they had better little help phenomenal what you're saying here are hundred to one hundred fifty of corrupt investigators here a list of four thousand names heading out or being sought after by these journalists as well suggesting a media mogul murdoch his news empire definitely facing up to some serious pressure is it conceivable that it could be brought down by all of this and if so how would that affect the global media environment. well it would actually be very healthy i think for the global media environment certainly because of the expanding nature of this of this police investigation now it looks like a proper police investigation for the first time into this it could well mean that we see rupert murdoch's empire in britain crumbling collapsing simply because large amounts of his income which comes through advertising almost every day more people are withdrawing advertising and endorsement of the murdoch empire but just to get

back to the police side of it because the police simply haven't done their job and this is becoming absolutely clear now. back in two thousand and four this book here which is the untouchables dirty cops justice and racism in scotland yard was published in britain and what it does is it actually names john yates and it also. names andy hayman two senior people involved in this whole fine cracking case. at least potentially anyway corrupt police officers that paul condon was trying to get rid of now it seems that we've got a kind of culture of impunity in scotland yard and combine this with the really criminal activities news international this is absolutely astounding and this is what this judicial inquiry is going to have to dig out and the sooner the better indeed a very murky indeed if you say a culture of impunity let's start our attention to another high profile case to do with the disclosure of information of course the extradition of the wiki leaks founder julian assange what's your take on the sex assault charges filed against

him in sweden of energy. well let's not forget that actually asserted it still hasn't been properly charged with any crime in sweden this is the crazy thing about this entire case they want to extradite him for questioning but he hasn't been properly charged and it seems that the european arrest warrant has been used for this is really the kind of thing that you would expect to be used in the most serious criminal cases you know really serious crime and yet there hasn't actually been any kind of proper probably face years of evidence presented in sweden to show that he has committed a crime this is just he's just a very basic suspect i would draw a comparison with what we've seen in the dominique strauss can fire meth case and that is that this looks to me to be some kind of sting operation so that the political people that don't like what percentage is doing a chance to get at him and he's becoming quite clear now that the dominic straus can there may be actually no prosecution finally in new york against him and i

think we may well see the same with the sun and it's i'm glad to see that the british legal system is. tying up the swedish lawyers in knots it seems at the moment in order to stop being extradited i don't think we will see is extradition but it is absolutely appalling that he is being stopped from actually operating what is probably the most important publishing website in the world right now as it is. how you tie a sergeant and strauss kahn together for giving for interrupting but really running out of time here very briefly very short time if indeed it was extradited would. be sent to the states. yes of course he would i mean the reason that sweden is being used is because this is a stopping off point for the u.s. at least that's the pressure that's being put on let's not forget that the guy it seems originally leaked this material that is bradley manning from the united states he has if you have seen pictures of him it looks like he's been tortured now is this what they're going to be doing to a science as well if they go back to the united states i dread to think so and it's

a kind of perverse side to all this if i was involved here i think assad is one of the one of the most important publishers in the world should be given and i would be but unfortunately not he's being harassed and harassed and i'm glad to see the british legal system seems to be slowing that whole process down as much as possible investigative journalist tony gosling a base in the u.k. thank you very much. for all of the explosive mixture of media and politics and the hacking scandal that's gripping the world's attention is also discussed in today's edition of cross talk or you can join people of eleanor's guests later today but for now here's a quick preview. in this particular case with news of the world it looks more and more like you had reporters and editors who are engaging in criminal conduct there is no concept of free press anywhere in the world that enables journalists to break the law if someone hacked my voicemail i would love to see them in jail but if you look at the criticisms that are being leveled at murdoch it goes far beyond that

people are using this as an opportunity to attack him for his politics and for his stridency and first partisanship. i mean you can watch crosstalk in about a two and a quarter hours time here and see the eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow as debt is downgraded to junk status by moody's credit rating agency it's fueling concerns the country could need a second bailout this comes a week after portugal's rating was also reduced and follows speculation that it's really too might soon ask for a helping hand pull a. northwest england has told r.t. that the latest developments prove that the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a column in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing

economies like germany was never going to work the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to the international court and see the value growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they can't reduce their debt because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon or even top of the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people who are out in the streets in rome and in lisbon and talk about this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue now facing the auto peña is really really is the third largest economy in the eurozone of late largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies but if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes italy's economy is intertwined with spain and spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble the euro is inextricably to the whole project and it's looking

to the european union if the eurozone goes quite frankly you can see this whole thing breaking up but that is why they're so desperate to keep it that's why this was desperate to say that we in the u.k. are fed up with bailouts are the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the euro zone. you without your life in moscow a few minutes away now from the business bullets and the world the fastest growing economies india and china appear to have reached an economic faceoff the two countries have huge mutual exports but on india's part it's mostly raw materials while china specializes in manufactured goods the trade imbalance is putting new delhi at a growing disadvantage priya sridhar explains. it's dragon versus tiger in the battle for asian supremacy india and china are two of the fastest growing economies . with the world's largest population vying for power and prestige in asia and beyond where india led the way in i t and back offices china race to head in

mobilizing its masses onto the factory floor fueling a huge trade deficit and a reality india is forced to accept. india post world class space in nuclear programs yet struggles to create every day jobs making every day good something this cotton tycoon knows all too well it's cheaper for him to export to china to get the job done than let india buy it back then we make a profit of ten percent more in the international market than the domestic market ironically it's indian efficiency that's part of the problem with supply rapidly outpacing domestic demand. if you don't export in the cotton prices in india will crush and farmers will suffer as they won't get even the original price this will

increase the quantity of cotton and even the indian government is encouraging the export of course and here in the cotton fields of india lies the heart of the indian chinese trade relationship more than seventy percent of the exports from india to china are raw materials like cotton however ninety percent of the exports from china to india are manufactured goods if india is selling well then why should it matter well having a twenty billion dollar gap with your next door neighbor puts power in their hands and makes jobs in savings dry up at home and economists know that only by sewing up a successful manufacturing sector will india's large unskilled workforce be soaked up but it's a blind spot that's leading to blind faith. and we should focus on the. rest of. the. competition that we're looking at india are growing and growing maybe both going to be growing and you know it's a very different world scene future indian traders seem satisfied because the set

up means the mind keeps rolling in. the benefits in exporting is that we get a bigger volume of cotton and we also get paid on time but new delhi is worried knowing it has to cut its cloth before its economic run of luck. preassure there are tea indoor india. and you can find more from aarti on our website i include in the latest news and blogs and expert analysis here are some of the items that are lined up for you right now. from the stars how you could soon be able to see a picture of yourself taken from orbit with two special cameras installed at the international space station plus. from catwalk to cat fight there was anything but model behavior at a russian fashion show as a world of beauty turned ugly find out the full story behind the high heeled hostilities that are to the top. they've already suffered months of civil war but now hunger could be the latest threat facing

people in libya tripoli says the violence has meant that not even a fifth of the country's harvests have been gathered and one of the dire consequences of fighting continues over the next few months steven brown from front page online magazine says nato is rushed and devean in libya looks like a major mistake. the whole thing has backfired on both cause ian and nato they thought was going to be an easy victory they simply got caught up in. their own human rights and broadly going through the u.n. waging war of the u.n. and this is the result you know there's no decision it's costing tens of millions of dollars civilians are being killed libyan civilians there to assure the war was never the libyan civilians it was about making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france. well let's have a brief look now at some other international news for you here are thousands of protesting in the egyptian capital cairo for the sixth day running demanding the

removal of the military council and threatening to expand their city into other cities demonstrators also calling for ousted president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military has warned protesters against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rally well. the half brother of the afghan president hamid karzai has been buried in kandahar. as i was murdered in his home there on choose day the taliban has described the assassination as their biggest achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in kandahar and a regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to the funeral. well a cause i was often accused of having links with the illegal but highly lucrative afghan drug trade the man responsible for the fight against drugs in russia says a decade of a military failures by coalition forces in afghanistan is only contributing to the

problem you can see the full interview next hour here r t but here's a brief look. this september will see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer the world war two but the situation in afghanistan ultrasound improved and even senior officials like general petraeus for example commander of the military operation in afghanistan to put says that the number of clashes increases year after year it said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circle in this respect to be worthwhile to note that a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most of your opium poppies the operation was presented as a brilliant military success considerable kilometers and hectares of the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium but it wasn't it was. just a few moments here on r.t. it's marina with the business.

the international fashion festival takes place in prose on july ninth and tenth. living collections by russian designers. to the city of central russia. this is a little unfair children's fashion show slum is like presiding over the festival. fashion festival. this is. how own business here on our goal the spreading the record highs as investors wrong for safe haven from the debt crisis spreading across europe. saxo bank believes this strong some precious metal will continue until the politicians find

a workable solution. gold is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is salivating your year long term investment criteria is in the sense that this is a currency that cannot be devalued by printing of money i think the reason why gold is going up run now is that everyone seems to sense that the political solution once again becomes throwing more debt at a day we need to change that will probably take some pressure off the gold but gold is going up today tomorrow and for the next week as long as the politician play this game of hide and seek and no decision making. despite the nervousness in europe in fact in the russian market peter weston from at some capital still believes there are good stories to trade here. speaking about sectors i do think that in this environment you're likely to see more support for defensive names like telecoms like utilities although you could argue to what extent due to it's a rational defensive but nevertheless

a more liquid names like it was hard. holding my. bets you know in this kind of environment but nevertheless you do also have the elections to look out for and we know the duties tend to be associated high political risk. telecom so you know i mean ross chemical who looks really interesting it's going to get the understeer listing it's going to london listing and really that we're seeing increasing interest to that name so i you know this is something which is both offensive but it was a good story. and let's have a look at how the markets are doing in europe they are mixed this hour after a downgrade of ireland by moody's ratings agency kept suffering that war is in focus for very group is up three point six percent in london making at the top gain there and that's as the luxury goods maker reported revenues up thirty percent in the first quarter and here in moscow the markets have turned negative as sentiment remains uncertain the light summer trade let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sex bank has slipped into the red and

the losses are limited by an earlier reports of a one hundred eighty percent jump in first half net profits were all kali's out more than one of the half percent after the even left at close on potage imports from russia and coal miner at a spot sky is continuing its rally on expectations of a takeover bid from v e b. bellows may sell stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting a bailout for its crisis kate economy these will include gas pipeline companies and to refineries russian technologies corporation and state run gas from our. those interested in the assets minsk received an eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy burned through its currency reserves. well that's all the business news for now join us for another updates in about fifteen minutes in the meantime it's the headlines with henri.

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the gateway photo the brendan period trying to tell us to push coromandel. closely to see don't need to go and. read the some of the kennel was her job as a retreat. it is a five thirty pm here in moscow you with on the c a recap of the top stories the bodies of about one hundred people including many children have been recovered from at the volga river the site of sunday's sinking of a question to some rescuers continue the search for more as around thirty are still missing. the american missile shield over europe remains of the main obstacle in russia u.s. relations wants legal guarantees it won't be targeted the statement came from russia's foreign minister sort of who's currently on a visit to the u.s. . the eurozone economic crisis deepens.

fueling fears the country may need a second bailout shortly after similar predictions were made about portugal italy also tipped to be on the brink and. coming up our special report on one of the most scenic in russia. presents a sight to behold discovering russia is next. the region deep in the siberian forest is one of russia's newest. two thousand and eight it brought together the. regions and with it the striking mix of asian and european culture. you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks

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